Shareholder proposals

2,290 proposals put to a vote by the owners of these companies, read from the filings the companies themselves made to the SEC. 187 of them won a majority of the votes cast.

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173 matching, showing 1 to 60.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2019	Wells Fargo	Shareholder Proposal – Report on Global Median Gender Pay Gap		22.6%	Failed
2019	Wells Fargo	Shareholder Proposal – Report on Incentive-Based Compensation and Risks of Material Losses	Arjuna Capital	21.6%	Failed
2019	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Based upon the following votes, our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting a report on our policies and activities with respect to lobbying	Friends Fiduciary Corporation	32.3%	Failed
2019	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Based upon the following votes, our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting annual reporting on the integration of risks related to drug pricing in our executive compensation program	Trinity Health	22.8%	Failed
2019	UnitedHealth Group	Shareholder proposal regarding amendment to proxy access bylaw	John Chevedden	26.7%	Failed
2019	Republic Services	The shareholder proposal regarding electoral contributions and expenditures		23.3%	Failed
2019	Sempra	Shareholder Proposal Requiring an Independent Board Chairman		42.8%	Failed
2019	Salesforce	Stockholder proposal regarding a “true diversity” board policy	The National Center for Public Policy Research	1.2%	Failed
2019	Northern Trust	The stockholder proposal regarding the right of stockholders to call a special meeting of the stockholders was defeated by the votes set forth in the table below		35%	Failed
2019	Northern Trust	The stockholder proposal regarding additional disclosure of political contributions was defeated by the votes set forth in the table below		25.5%	Failed
2019	Norfolk Southern	A shareholder proposal regarding simple majority vote, by the following count	John Chevedden	69.9%	Passed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Strategic Alternatives		0.7%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Workforce Diversity		0.5%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Median Gender Pay Gap		9.9%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Content Governance Report		5.7%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding True Diversity Board Policy		1%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	The stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal regarding an independent chair		24.5%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Chair		20%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Change in Stockholder Voting		24.5%	Failed
2019	Leidos	A stockholder proposal regarding simple majority vote		92.1%	Passed
2019	IBM	Stockholder Proposal to Have an Independent Board Chairman		40.5%	Failed
2019	IBM	Stockholder Proposal on the Right to Act by Written Consent	John Chevedden	41.9%	Failed
2019	Huntington Ingalls Industries	A stockholder proposal to permit an unlimited number of stockholders to aggregate their ownership of HII common stock to satisfy the ownership requirement under HII’s proxy access bylaw were as follows		31.5%	Failed
2019	Franklin Resources	This stockholder proposal		9.9%	Failed
2019	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Proposal 4 The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to provide for right to act by written consent, as set forth below	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company	46.9%	Failed
2019	General Dynamics	Shareholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Board Chairman	John Chevedden	23.4%	Failed
2019	eBay Inc.	The Company’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal requesting the Board of Directors require an independent chair		23.5%	Failed
2019	Cognizant	The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the Board adopt a policy and amend the Company's governing documents to require that the Chairman of the Board be an independent director was as follows		35.8%	Failed
2019	Cognizant	The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the Company provide a report disclosing its political spending and related Company policies was as follows		53.6%	Passed
2019	Cisco	A shareholder proposal to have Cisco’s Board adopt a new policy to have an independent Board chairman		28.7%	Failed
2019	Capital One	Stockholder Proposal Requesting Stockholders’ Right to Act by Written Consent	John Chevedden	56.9%	Passed
2019	BNY Mellon	Stockholder proposal regarding a pay equity report		24.5%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Enhance Shareholder Proxy Access		26%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Right to Act by Written Consent		26.4%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Report Concerning Gender Pay Equity		23%	Failed
2019	American International Group	Shareholder proposal calling for the Board to take steps to amend AIG’s By-laws to provide shareholders who hold at least 10 percent of AIG’s outstanding common stock the right to call special meetings		47.3%	Failed
2019	Walmart	The advance-notice requirement of the Company’s bylaws, the Company’s shareholders voted upon and rejected a shareholder proposal that was raised from the floor of the annual Meeting which requested that the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors consider hourly associates among the list of potential director candidates		0%	Failed
2019	Walmart	The Company’s shareholders voted upon and rejected a shareholder proposal requesting that the company take specific steps to strengthen the prevention of sexual harassment		10.8%	Failed
2019	Pfizer Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding integrating drug pricing into executive compensation policies and programs		28.7%	Failed
2019	Eli Lilly	F)By the following vote, a shareholder proposal requesting a report regarding direct and indirect political contributions		26.5%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal regarding vote-counting practices for shareholder proposals		4.8%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on integrating certain metrics into executive compensation		19.1%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting changes to the Company’s gender pay reporting		26.8%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a board ideology disclosure policy		2.7%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on climate change topics		30.9%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on certain employment policies		33.3%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair policy		24.9%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on certain products		27.2%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on the impact of government use of certain technologies		28.2%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a ban on government use of certain technologies		2.5%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a reduction in the ownership threshold for calling special shareholder meetings		35.4%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an annual report on management of food waste		25.9%	Failed
2019	Waste Management	Stockholder proposal regarding a policy on accelerated vesting of equity awards in the event of a change in control	The International Brotherhood of Teamsters General Fund	38.3%	Failed
2019	Verisign	The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal requesting that the Company's Board of Directors (the “Board”) adopt a policy that requires the Chair of the Board to be an independent member of the Board		24.7%	Failed
2019	United Rentals	Stockholder Proposal on Right to Act by Written Consent		50.4%	Passed
2019	United Airlines Holdings	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on lobbying spending	The Nathan Cummings Foundation	25.2%	Failed
2019	United Airlines Holdings	The stockholder proposal regarding the limitation on renomination of proxy access nominees		18.3%	Failed
2019	Travelers Companies (The)	Item 5 — Shareholder Proposal Relating to a Diversity Report, Including EEOC Data		50.9%	Passed
2019	TJX Companies	A shareholder proposal for a report on human rights risks		38.8%	Failed
2019	TJX Companies	A shareholder proposal for a report on prison labor		37.6%	Failed

Support is the share of votes cast for and against, so abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted in it. A proposal shows who asked for it where we have been able to tie the vote to a campaign on record; blank means we have not, not that nobody filed it.